College football, and, more specifically, the biggest league in the sport, the SouthEastern Conference (SEC), caught a colossal black eye Saturday night.
In the waning moments of Mississippi's win over Tennessee, inebriated, angry Volunteer fans, incensed that two replay reviews favored the visitors, began pelting the field and Rebels players & coaches, including Ole Miss coach "Primrose" Lane Kiffin, returning to one of his former employers as a visiting coach for the first time. Kiffin was clocked with a golf ball. Tennessee cheerleaders left the sidelines and went on the field during the delay for their own safety.
You know, they could've paid local homeless people to pick up the empty bottles & cans.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey wasn't thrilled in the least bit, and deemed the incident "unacceptable". Can ya blame him? He fined the University of Tennessee a quarter of a million dollars as a result of the drunks' actions.
Now, we all know they treat football like it was religion down in the south, but there aren't enough confessionals in Tennessee to get these geeks to repent.
They're looking at the video to ID the perps. Ya gotta figure they're hoping they don't call the Mayor of Knox County, Glenn Jacobs, aka WWE's Kane. This close to Halloween, he might have a special kind of punishment in mind. Just sayin'.
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Given how the Giants were throttled, 38-11, by the Rams on Sunday, ya wonder if they didn't give QB Daniel Jones a free pass through the concussion portal. Sure, three interceptions ain't new, but they couldn't be bothered to take a chance on letting backup Mike Glennon, who used most of his 15 minutes with Tampa Bay a few years ago, start in Jones' place. Not that it would've changed anything, maybe, but 2nd year coach Joe "There Goes The" Judge is on the hot seat. He was a special teams coordinator for New England before going to the Giants, which makes one think co-owner John Mara may be just as cheap as former Mets owner Fred Wilpon was. Just the same, Judge will follow Luis Rojas out of New York sooner rather than later.
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It's been almost a week since Jon Gruden resigned as Las Vegas Raiders coach, but he keeps drawing support from the wrong kind of people.
After Newsnax's Greg Kelly's misguided whining about "white men are under attack", Dumb Donald II (Donald Trump, Jr.) hopped on the Gruden bandwagon like an unwanted guest looking for a free meal. The more right wingers show their support for Gruden, treating him like a martyr, which he isn't, the worse it's actually going to be, as he's likely not getting another coaching gig again any time soon, not to mention going back to television.
Would someone point out to Kelly, Trump, and the rest of these morons that the calendar reads 2021, not 1951?
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The honeymoon is over for Sam Darnold in Carolina.
The Panthers have lost three in a row after starting 3-0. Seems Darnold may have reverted to the form that forced him off the Jests.
And, uh, Cam Newton is available. Seattle coach Pete Carroll reached out to Newton after Russell Wilson went down with an injury, but while the Seahawks are going with ex-Jest Geno Smith at QB for now, I don't think this story's over yet. Panthers management might want to think about a mea culpa with Newton.
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Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Ryan, aka "Matty Ice", is moonlighting these days.
Ryan has joined Procter & Gamble's Cold Call series of ads with WWE Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Ice-T (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit). I guess Vanilla Ice was not willing to commit to a long term gig.
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